A loss for UK universities
might be a gain for schools abroad, The Daily Telegraph reports.
According to Graeme Paton, universities from outside the UK — including
many Ivy League colleges in the US — are launching efforts to recruit students from England
who are feeling disillusioned by the higher education system in the
country due to the controversy over the rising tuition fees.
Last year, colleges and universities in the US played host to nearly
9,000 British undergraduates — and there are some who are predicting
that this number will rise steeply in coming years due to the narrowing
of the gap in the expense of attending school at home and abroad. For
evidence, they are looking at the number of kids taking US college
entrance exams like the SAT and the ACT has gone up by 30% over the past
several years, with companies administering the exam expanding the
number of the centers around the country to accommodate growing demand.
